CVE-2007-4356

critical Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
9.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS Score
28.6%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 3% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
M
Confidentiality
C
Integrity
C
Availability
C
Published: August 15, 2007 (6847 days ago)
Last Modified: April 23, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and 7 embeds FTP credentials in HTML files that are retrieved during an FTP session, which allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading the HTML source, as demonstrated by a (1) .htm, (2) .html, or (3) .mht file.

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

microsoft internet explorer

References

🔗 blog.washingtonpost.com 🔗 osvdb.org 🔗 secunia.com 🔗 blog.washingtonpost.com 🔗 osvdb.org